{"id":350338,"date":"2026-06-07T07:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350338\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:37:28","slug":"shohei-ohtani-greets-jen-pawol-in-her-first-mlb-game-of-the-season-behind-the-plate-at-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350338\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani greets Jen Pawol in her first MLB game of the season behind the plate at Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pawol-mlb-umpires-spring-training-4ab5c8216eaf0c2eb672559a7d4cd55b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jen Pawol<\/a>, who made history last year as the first woman umpire in the major leagues, was behind the plate for the Angels-Dodgers game on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani greeted her leading off the bottom of the first inning as he customarily does with the umpire in each of his at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>Pawol, 49, umpired during spring training for the third straight year but she did not get one of the permanent staff openings. Instead, she is part of MLB&#8217;s call-up list.<\/p>\n<p>She worked her first game of the automated balls and strikes challenge system on April 17 when the Giants visited the Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>She became the first female major league umpire on Aug. 9, 2025, and worked a total of five big league games last season. In 2024, she became the first woman to umpire big league spring training games since Ria Cortesio in 2007. Pawol has been a minor league ump since 2016 and has worked at Triple-A since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Pawol was flirting with potential history early in Friday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Angels starter Reid Detmers tossed three hitless innings before allowing a single to Freddie Freeman in the fourth. <\/p>\n<p>Dodgers starter Roki Sasaki pitched no-hit ball through the first four innings before giving up a double to Nick Madrigal in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>This story has been corrected to show Jen Pawol previously umpired this season.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Jen Pawol, who made history last year as the first woman umpire in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,21297,565,5168,21296,5167],"class_list":["post-350338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-ap-online-sports-headlines","tag-ap-top-news","tag-ap-top-news-l-twc-regions","tag-ap-top-news-sports","tag-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}